HOLTON H178 'FARKAS'

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£1,990.00

The original H-178 ‘Farkas Model’ was designed by Philip Farkas, legendary former Principalhorn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. On many of the C.S.O. recordings Mr Farkas can be heard making a large, ‘complex’ sound; surprisingly, he was not playing a ‘large’ horn, but Holton's 'medium' model, the H-178.

It is a superb horn with a bright, compact feel, and a sound of outstanding tonal beauty. The ‘Medium-throated’ hand-hammered bell produces a medium-dark tone with fine legato characteristics. The yellow brass body produces a bright, pure tone colour with multiple overtonesand great projection.

This lovely horn, in the ‘right hands and lips’(!) is capable of playing pianissimo to fortissimo, ‘staccatissimo’ to ‘molto legato’ with great clarity and sensitivity.

Bell: medium-throated hand-hammered yellow brass; formerly detachable, the flare is now fixed in place, on account of its rather fragile threads.

Water key: conventional type, on the leadpipe.

Duck's foot / flipper fitted.

New fixed-bell lightweight case with back-pack straps.

NB: This horn is in generally good but somewhat 'cosmetically scruffy' condition; however, it plays beautifully, with an even response over the whole range. It is a natural upgrade professional horn for a young/improving player who currently uses an Intermediate instrument such as a Holton 378 or Yamaha 567.